(even more) climate futures

They will take a while to digest, but worth noting that Forum for the Future just produced an interesting set of five climate-consequence scenarios (I suppose you could call them). I happened to hear Jonathan Porritt mention them while presiding over the Schumacher lecture and discussion day in Bristol, but I fear others may have [...]

US future intelligence

Nothing like getting your retaliation in first…   Entertaining US lefty commentator Tom Engelhardt (who I recall meeting at Pantheon books way back in the ’80s) has an entertaining pre-emptive demolition of the US National Intelligence Council’s next Global Trends assessment, apparently due for release in December.
He reviews what was in previous editions, and concludes that, [...]